· Private foundation
Lawrence B Taishoff Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $56k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $29k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST DUNSTANS EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $18,500 |
| BREAD FOR THE CITY | $10,000 |
| TRINITY COLLEGE | $7,500 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $5,000 |
| HIPS | $5,000 |
| PROMISE LANDING FARM | $5,000 |
| HUNGRY FOR MUSIC | $4,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF ALASKA | $4,000 |
| ALASKA FELLOWS PROGRAM | $3,000 |
| PATRIOT PAWS | $2,500 |
| SHARE | $2,500 |
| ARLINGTON FOOD ASSISTANCE CENTER | $2,500 |
| AMERICAN LEGION POST 24 | $2,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $59k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
27 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- BFBREAD FOR THE CITY INC5× · 2021–2025 · $50k · revenue +16%
TRINITY COLLEGE7× · 2019–2025 · $37k · revenue +49%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC8× · 2018–2025 · $35k · revenue +89%
Funded once
- HCHOLY CHILDone grant, 2020 · $10k
- TCTRINITY COLLEGE FUNDone grant, 2018 · $5k
- TMTHE MCLEAN SCHOOL OF MARYLAND INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +52%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Moveable feast's mission is to improve the health of marylanders experiencing food insecurity and chronic illness by preparing and delivering medically tailored meals and providing nutrition education, thereby achieving racial, social, and…
Degree granting college-maryland institute college of art is a private college dedicated to the education of professional artists and the further advancement of art in the community.
DC Greens advances health equity by building a just and resilient food system.
We are making maryland healthier by connecting residents to insurance and care, educating the community about healthier living, and advocating a more equitable health care system.
The arc baltimore supports people with developmental disabilities to lead fulfilling lives with a sense of belonging, purpose, and meaningful relationships.
To improve the quality of life for all persons with intellectual disabilities and their families through supports and advocacy.
We deliver healthy delicious meals to our home-bound neighbors. With a vision of creating a more interconnected resilient and compassionate community our program supports entire family systems. In 2024 236 volunteers delivered 55,642 meals…
The mission of the school is to provide outstanding legal education in a collegial and supportive environment with attention to newly emerging areas of law, particularly those related to technological development, globalization and the…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of the Montgomery County Community Foundation (MCCF) is to provide leadership in Montgomery County by directing sustainable financial resources that strengthen our community and improve the quality of life for current and…
As a statewide resource center, the school provides outreach, educational and residential services for students to reach their fullest potential by preparing them to be as successful, independent, and well-rounded contributing members of…
Serving the interests of independent higher education and supporting the work of campus leaders throughout the state of maryland.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Arc of Southern Maryland Inc and the most unlike its peers is Moco Kidsco Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 43 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds BREAD FOR THE CITY INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds TRINITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds HIPS ↗
- Who funds PATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS ↗
- Who funds FOOD & FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN MUSIC THERAPY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SHARE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S TABLE INC ↗
- Who funds LANDON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HUNGRY FOR MUSIC ↗
- Who funds Eckerd College ↗
- Who funds MOCO KIDSCO INC ↗
- Who funds PROMISE LANDING FARM INC ↗
- Who funds NATURE CAMP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE MCLEAN SCHOOL OF MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of Alaska ↗
- Who funds ARTS CENTER IN ORANGE INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF SOUTHERN MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds The Arc of Northern Virginia ↗
- Who funds Arlington Food Assistance Center ↗
- Who funds REX FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Electronic Frontier Foundation Inc ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · Verizon Foundation · The Jv Schiro Zavela Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Lawrence B Taishoff Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Moco Kidsco Inc — 15% of income from government
- The Arc of Southern Maryland Inc — 2% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Eckerd College — 0% of income from government
- Trinity College — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.